Comments on: Book review – Planetary Accounting: Quantifying How to Live Within Planetary Limits at Different Scales of Human Activity

By: Book review – Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:06:33 +0000

[…] this point in the book I started shifting in my chair uneasily. As I have written elsewhere, I am frustrated with the environmental movement’s narrative that casts politics and business […]

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By: Book review – Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:29:29 +0000

[…] they envision a transition to a steady-state economy that acknowledges planetary boundaries (some Planetary Accounting might help) and practises long-term […]

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By: Book review – A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:03:26 +0000

[…] model drawn up by Johan Rockström and colleagues, which I brought up in my previous review of Planetary Accounting. This Earth systems science framework demarcates a “safe operating space for humanity” […]

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By: Book review – Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:27:47 +0000

[…] adjustments and make explicit what a culture of self-limitation would actually look like. Planetary Accounting, which I review next, explores this idea much further. My hope is that quantification will bring […]

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By: Book review – Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:22:11 +0000

[…] not without fundamentally restructured provisioning systems” (more on that in my review of Planetary Accounting). And, as he points out in his conclusion to the book, we have to accept the “impossibility […]

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By: Book review – Time and the Generations: Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:19:49 +0000

[…] One thing Dasgupta, by his own admission, stops short of is formulating policies as to how we could achieve optimum global population. Luckily, others are starting to be willing to discuss this. Equally important will be the tough discussion on how we can change our behaviour so as to live lighter on our environment, something I cover in my review of Planetary Accounting. […]

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